27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
Elon Musk’s Starship SN4, which the entrepreneur hopes will one day lead... the test itself as opposed to any material problems with the Starship build, said Musk. SpaceX's Starship SN2 has been the only prototype to pass cryogenic proof testing, ...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought two deepwater oil rigs near to the .... Once complete, Starship could launch as many as 100 people at a time, an achievement Musk thinks could be attainable about six years from now, possibly earlier. “If we get lucky, ...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
... SpaceX, NASA commercial crew mission to the ISS, Elon Musk is pushing forward with plans to reach Mars with ... style, both vehicles will be fully reusable, an approach that Musk passionately advocates as being the only way forward to slashing the cost...
28 May 2025
SpaceX faces renewed scrutiny over Mars ambitions after Starship malfunctions
... opportunity within its rapid development approach. Company CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on that philosophy, indicating that ...the foundational transport for future human settlement on Mars. Musk has repeatedly stated that the long-term survival of ...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... first colonisers of Mars. This idea is being put forward by Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and the guru of the Space 2.0 ... commercial potential on Earth. An example of this is that Elon Musk founded not only the SpaceX company, but also the Tesla ...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... the recent attempt from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a commercial launch provider created by Paypal’s founder Elon Musk, to land their heavy Falcon 9 first stage on a custom-build ocean platform3? By re-using the first stage...
